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Thursday, July 26, 2018

Does Drake's Streaming Records Make Him The Greatest Artist Ever?

Drake is the biggest artist of all time on both Spotify and Apple Music, according to MBW’s calculations – and has generated comfortably over $100m for himself and his fellow rights-holders across the two services.

Apple confirmed over the weekend that, following the release of his record-breaking Scorpion album, Drake has now surpassed 10bn lifetime streams on Apple Music, becoming the first artist in history to do so.

A new era. 📈🦉 10 billion streams on Apple Music. Congratulations, @champagnepapi. #drake
A post shared by Apple Music (@applemusic) on Jul 19, 2018 at 10:27am PDT

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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Ed Sheeran's $213.9 million grossing 2018 tour breaks records

If you're feeling just a little bit nostalgic for all those unnecessary news stories earlier in the year confirming that your main man Eddy Sheeran was the most successful recording artist in the world in 2017, then sit down and get ready to digest, dissect, analyse and enjoy this unnecessary confirmation that your dominant dude Eddy Sheeran is the most successful touring artist in the world in 2018.

US live industry trade magazine Pollstar has just published its mid-year touring report, packed full of data about ticket sales and box office income from the biggest touring acts of the year so far. And, somewhat unsurprisingly, Sheeran - along with his trusty guitar and box of pedals - tops the chart with gross income for his touring activity in the first half of the year reported at $213.9 million.

That's $100 million more than...